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NNadir

(33,561 posts)
Mon Feb 17, 2020, 10:12 PM Feb 2020

John Quincy Adams. The first one I remember was Polk vs. Clay, and my first vote was for... [View all]

...Winfield Scott.

I was really pissed off when that asshole Franklin Pierce won the election, which lead to Buchanan...

Of course, Buchanan was, until Trump, considered the worst President ever, so it kind of gives one hope, since Lincoln came along and cleaned up the mess and actually made the country better than it was when those two asses before him held the office. We'll need another Lincoln, but we could do without Civil War II.

I note that the United States had a President before Trump who was also a traitor, albeit not to a foreign power as Trump is to Russia.

Ex-President John Tyler served in the Confederate government, and thus was a traitor to his country.

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